Path Zero Consulting

Why Path Zero Consulting?

At Shop! Association, we understand that your sustainability needs are growing. We are here to help you beyond our currently offered programs.

Strategic sustainability planning helps you figure out the best way to integrate sustainability into your organization. It involves identifying potential sustainability targets and implementing meaningful practices, not just being sustainable for the sake of it.

Facility sustainability audits independently review each facility to assess its current status, identify improvement opportunities, and evaluate environmental impact. Improvement opportunities are ranked based on environmental, organizational, societal, and economic priorities, leading to recommendations for easy implementation and priority.

Organizational Sustainability Audit reviews an organization’s sustainability policy, environmental management system, and other applicable sustainability policies such as procurement, shipping, packaging, training and safety requirements. Includes validation of goals/objectives/targets, environmental aspects/effects assessment content, suggestions of additional opportunities and recommendations for improvement.

Product Life Cycle Indicator (LCI) offers a comprehensive assessment that adheres to GHG Protocol standards. It evaluates the entire life cycle of a product, from the extraction of raw materials (cradle) to its disposal or recycling (grave). This indicator helps organizations understand the environmental impact of their products at each stage, enabling them to make informed decisions for sustainability improvements

Product Sustainability Impact evaluates the sustainability of displays, signs, or other complex goods. It takes into account factors like greenhouse gas emissions and raw material content, but does not serve as a complete life cycle indicator

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Benefits Shop! Path Zero Consulting

• Professional advice from experienced sustainability consultants
• Customized problem solving focused on your organization’s needs
• Cost savings through strategic sustainability decision making and planning
• Goal setting at all levels of the organization both for the short and long term
• Time efficient: an experienced consultant shortens the information gathering and assessment process to allow your organization to move forward more effectively
• Stay up to date on sustainability trends and insights

Service 1 Facility Sustainability Audit:

Pricing: $5850+Travel

• Avoids arbitrary spending on emissions reductions by strategically considering factors such as impact opportunities, ROI, organizational priorities, and stakeholder effects.
• Results can be used to develop realistic sustainability goals and targets
• Provides foundation needed in strategically developing a sustainability policy and environmental management system (EMS) OR reviews facility performance within its existing EMS.
• Provides the path to integration of sustainability throughout operations through goal setting, action plans and review of progress since previous audit
• Ranks performance on sustainability internally, both initially and over time
• Industry-specific: Includes factors that are specific to In-store manufacturing and production
  • Environmental management
  • Energy use optimization (equipment-focused)
  • Energy efficient buildings (lighting, heat islands, thermal controls, reducing dependence on fossil fuels)
  • Waste reduction
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • Resilience (renewable energy, battery-back up, safety drills, climate-related shutdowns, building management tracking)
  • Vehicles (owned/leased) and upstream and downstream transportation
  • Water (use, discharge, efficiencies)
  • Societal impacts (reporting and external audits)
  • Capital goods (locally sourced, recyclable materials, recycled materials)
  • Supply chain (labor and human rights and sustainability requirements)
  • Products – Waste reduction
  • Products – Local sources
  • Products – VOCs
  • Products – Responsible forestry
  • Products – Life cycle
  • Products – End of life
  • Products – Emissions
• Aligns with Path Zero Benchmark, Emissions and Element for simpler reporting
• Final report includes an assessment of current standing, corrective actions, identification of high priority areas for improvement based on applicable environmental aspects and effects, suggested improvements/progress for the next year.
• Can be backed by AA1000AS standard (See services 4 and 5 below for details)

Service 2.Organizational Sustainability Audit:

Pricing: $3,600

• Reviews an organization’s sustainability policy, environmental management system, and other applicable sustainability policies such as procurement, shipping, packaging, training and safety requirements.
• Final report includes validation of goals/objectives/targets, environmental aspects/effects assessment content, suggestions of additional opportunities and recommendations for improvement.
• Industry-specific: Includes factors that are specific to In-store manufacturing and production
• Aligns with Path Zero Benchmark, Emissions and Element for simpler reporting
• Can be backed by AA1000AS standard (See services 4 and 5 below for details)

Service 3: Combined Organizational and Facility EMS/Sustainability Audit*:

*For organizations with only 1 location.
Pricing $7,200+ Travel

Service 4: Accountability Assurance Statement (Officially stamped):

• Done in addition to an Organizational Sustainability Audit and/or a Facility EMS/Sustainability Audit.
• Final statement provides a concise executive summary for the purposes of reporting back to your customers
• Meets third party verification requirements from globally accepted reporting systems and customers
• An independent evaluation statement that verifies an organization’s adherence to the AA1000 Accountability
• Principles of inclusivity, materiality, responsiveness and impact in the context of sustainability and corporate responsibility.
• The engagement includes a short, high-level summary of:
  • An assessment of the organization’s: 1) adherence to sustainability policies, objectives and practices. 2) engagement of stakeholders in decision-making processes, ensuring transparency and responsiveness to stakeholder concerns. 3) identification of and focus on key issues that are relevant to its stakeholders and sustainability goals. 4) response to concerns and needs of stakeholders and how it adapts to new sustainability challenges 5) demonstration of monitoring, measurement and management of sustainability impacts.
  • Recommendations for improvement in sustainability and accountability

Service 5: Accountability Assurance Statement and Report (Officially stamped)

Pricing: $6,050 (Includes $815 royalty fee to Accountability.)

• Same as above, except the final report provides expanded information tailored for improving your organization’s sustainability performance in the following areas:
  • An assessment of the organization’s: 1) adherence to sustainability policies, objectives and practices. 2) engagement of stakeholders in decision-making processes, ensuring transparency and responsiveness to stakeholder concerns. 3) identification of and focus on key issues that are relevant to its stakeholders and sustainability goals. 4) response to concerns and needs of stakeholders and how it adapts to new sustainability challenges 5) demonstration of monitoring, measurement and management of sustainability impacts.
  • Recommendations for improvement in sustainability and accountability